[VIDEO] How Steve Jobs saw the digital cloud 15 years ago?

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Dustin Curtis unearthed a real masterpiece - the video 15 years ago, where Apple founder He speaks about cloud computing and the future of the Internet. Reading the utterance, it is difficult not to wonder forecast accuracy, which gave Jobs. Described the future has not yet arrived, but it looks like it will be such:

Allow me to describe the world in which I live. About 8 years ago, we had a high-speed connection to the now outdated iron NeXT. Due to the fact that we used the NFS (file system), we were able to move all of our personal information - or home directories, as we call them - from the local machine to the remote server. Software made this absolutely clear. Since the server has a large amount of RAM, many cases turned out to make it much faster on the server than if all operations were carried out on the local machine.

What is truly remarkable is that any organization could hire a professional who will set up a backup at night. If you spend a little more money on the server will be possible to install additional hard drives or power supplies. And you know how many times I have over the last 7 years has lost at least part of the personal data?

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Never.

You know how many times I have to back up data from my computer?

Never.

I have computers at Apple, NeXT, Pixar and at home. I go to any of them and just log in. The entrance is on the network. I connect to my home directory on the server and get access to all their data. Nothing is stored on the local hard disk.

Now I was really interested in - is the emergence of the ethernet-Gigabit connections. With Gigabit Ethernet virtually every task can be performed faster on the server than on my local drive.

One of the most exciting things for me - it is an opportunity for a fresh look to a personal computer. Remove all moving parts except for the keyboard and mouse. I do not need a hard drive in your computer, if I can connect to the server faster.

I do not care how this is done. I do not care what kind of a box will be at the other end.

It is clear that the management of such a network can be a pain in the ass. Installation, configuration - all this is really hard. One of my hopes is that what Apple could do for this new type of network ( "new" - for the average person), based on Gigabit Ethernet technology, new servers and thinner zhelezyachnyh clients [...] to make an analog plug-and-play, just as a decade earlier Apple changed the user experience.

Here is the entire video (rewind at 14:40):

Much seems to have come true now. We can listen to music stored somewhere in the cloud Yandex (review of the iPhone-app), keep documents in Google Docs, and working files - in Dropbox. Computers have become faster, but not stunning. Macbook Air does not seem a monster performance, but it solves all the problems on "hurray". It remains to wait Gigabit Internet in every home, and see how it will change lives.